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Description: | Incomplete Roman leaf-shaped (Crummy type 4) seal box dating from the 2nd to 3rd century AD. The partial remains of the elongated leaf-shaped lid survives, with a worn break where the lid would have been hinged. There is a further break across the tapering end. Both these breaks have a minimum amount of wear, suggesting they are relatively recent. The upper surface is decorated with a raised outline of a leaf (heart-shape) enclosing a central roundel. There is a small, raised dot above this design. Although no trace of enamel survives, the zones created by this design were probably filled with enamel. The edge of the lid is raised around the border on both the upper and lower surface. The surface is worn and it has a patchy mid-green patina. The surviving fragment is 22.91mm long, 20.02mm wide, 0.97mm thick and weighs 1.32 grams.
This incomplete lid is an exact parallel in both ornamentation and size to Crummy 1983 figure 2525, p103. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 100
300 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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